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Strategic Defense: "Star Wars" in Perspective

Keith B. Payne
Reviewed by Andrew J. Pierre
Spring 1986
Strategic Defense: "Star Wars" in Perspective
Keith B. Payne
Hamilton Press
1986
250 pp.
$20.95
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The author is a proponent of the Strategic Defense Initiative, but he marshals the arguments against it as well as those for it in a fair manner. The result is a comprehensive summary of the current debate presented in a form easily understandable to the nonspecialist.

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